Article 5 doesn't oblige members to take any particular action. It only says that an attack on one is an attack on all, and leaves it to each member to decide what actions, if any, they will take in response.
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It says each member will assist the attacked party/parties, as it deems necessary.
My interpretation of the article is that assistance is mandatory. What type of assistance is up to the member to decide
https://www.nato.int/cps/fr/natohq/topics_110496.htm?selectedLocale=en
Prayers and likes is assistance right?
Thou shall not, not, probably assist. 🤷🏻♂️
Article 5 is only an obligation to have a meeting if someone calls for a meeting. It is not as strong as propagandized.
Greece and Turkey often have clashes and it is never a NATO issue.
CIA pig vermin NATO chief, Rutte, said it would not be a NATO matter.
I've never seen my former prime-minister been referenced as that :') - most certainly not my political colour, but why CIA pig vermin? He is most certainly a competent manager of the status quo, but as a leader spineless and without a vision (for a better world)
NATO leaders are only allowed to be CIA pig vermin meant to force submission of other members to US. CIA agents dominate all colonial political parties, but it is only the most loyal that rise to NATO chief.
Side note: If this administration does invade, just accept the invite to the group chat our drunken Secretary of Defense sends you.
Check the article 5 requirement. I don't see any "unless another NATO country" exceptions.
Probably moot as all the US has to do is increase presence and wait for an "or else" moment, so that they can rely with "or else what?"
Kind of like Czechoslovakia in WW2.
Obligation or not, it would set a frightening precedent of they didn't.
Yeah, it's a no win. Either NATO becomes ineffective because it won't honour it's agreement or WW3 starts.
Whether or not they have to defend, if they don't, Greece and Erdogan will go to war.
USA itself would violate it's own membership. With such an act it became the enemy of the NATO.
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